Cast
Basil Sydney
Acting
Cast
Basil Sydney
Known for
Acting
Born
1894-04-23
From
Essex, England, UK
Died
1968-01-10
Biography
Basil Sydney (23 April 1894 – 10 January 1968) was an English stage and screen actor. Sydney made his name in 1915 in the London stage hit Romance by Edward Sheldon, with Broadway star Doris Keane, and he costarred with Keane in the 1920 silent film of the play. The couple married in 1918, and when Keane revived Romance in New York City in 1921, Sydney made his Broadway debut in the parts. He stayed in New York for over a decade playing classical roles such as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (1922), Richard Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple (1923), the title role in Hamlet (1923), Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part I (1926), and Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew (1927).[citation needed] In 1937 he starred in the murder mystery Blondie White in the West End. He made over 50 screen appearances, most memorably as Claudius in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of Hamlet. He also appeared in classic films like Treasure Island (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), but the focus of his career was the stage on both sides of the Atlantic.
★6.7
MOVIE1956
Around the World in 80 Days
as Reform Club Member
★6.6
MOVIE1950
Treasure Island
as Captain Smollett
★6.8
MOVIE1952
Ivanhoe
as Waldemar Fitzurse
★6.7
MOVIE1959
The Devil's Disciple
as Lawyer Hawkins
★7.4
MOVIE1948
Hamlet
as Claudius - The King
★6.6
MOVIE1960
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
as Emperor of Lilliput
★6.2
MOVIE1945
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Rufio
★6.9
MOVIE1955
The Dam Busters
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
★9.5
MOVIE1920
Romance
★6.0
MOVIE1959
John Paul Jones
as Sir William Young
★7.0
MOVIE1954
Hell Below Zero
as Bland
★9.0
MOVIE1953
Three's Company
as Dr. Graham
★4.4
MOVIE1960
The Hands of Orlac
as Maurice Seidelman
★5.8
MOVIE1953
Salome
as Pontius Pilate
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Island in the Sun
as Julian Fleury
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Ships with Wings
as Capt. Fairfax
★7.2
MOVIE1942
Went the Day Well?
as Major Hammond / Kommandant Orlter
★7.5
MOVIE1947
Meet Me at Dawn
as Georges Vermorel
★10.0
MOVIE1922
Red Hot Romance
as Rowland Stone
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Talk of the Devil
★5.0
MOVIE1942
The Next of Kin
as Naval captain
★6.5
MOVIE1952
The Magic Box
as William Fox-Talbot
★10.0
MOVIE1936
Accused
as Eugene Roget
★5.6
MOVIE1957
Sea Wife
as Bulldog
★8.2
MOVIE1942
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
as Costello
★6.7
MOVIE1939
The Four Just Men
as Frank Snell
★4.4
MOVIE1954
Star of India
as King Louis XIV
★6.6
MOVIE1955
Simba
as Mr Crawford
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Rhodes of Africa
as Dr. Jim Jameson
★4.5
MOVIE1958
A Question of Adultery
as Sir John Loring
★5.4
MOVIE1960
A Story of David
as King Saul
★6.8
MOVIE1947
The Man Within
as Sir Henry Merriman
★5.2
MOVIE1947
Jassy
as Nick Helmar
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Crime Over London
as 'Joker' Finnigan
★7.0
MOVIE1950
The Angel with the Trumpet
as Francis Alt
★6.0
MOVIE1936
The Amateur Gentleman
as Louis Chichester
★6.1
MOVIE1957
Mayerling
as The Emperor Franz Joseph
★5.5
MOVIE1935
The Riverside Murder
as Inspector Philip Winton
★5.3
MOVIE1941
Spring Meeting
as James
★7.0
MOVIE1934
Dirty Work
as Hugh Stafford
★7.0
MOVIE1941
The Farmer's Wife
as Samuel Sweetland
★7.0
MOVIE1932
The Midshipmaid
as Cmdr. Fosberry
★5.5
MOVIE1935
The Tunnel
as Mostyn
★5.0
MOVIE1934
The Third Clue
as Reinhardt Conway
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Blind Man's Bluff
as Dr. Peter Fairfax
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Bits of Our Aircraft Are Missing
as (uncredited)